Justice can be achieved without racism.

Actually, it can’t. Since racism caused the injustice, identifying the victims and restoring their losses is impossible without using it.

The pendulum swing (post-dampening) is the only practical way to get to justice.

This is especially true since we can’t know we’ve achieved societal justice without some measurement delay.

Popular and profitable things do way more damage no matter how “uncool” they are. Boomers making minion images will only worsen the problem.

There’s no option for me to choose a copyright-free world. But, I can choose to not use (or promote or propagate) works made by “AI” owned my MASSIVE corporations in violation of the copyrights of millions of independent, often non-profit-driven content creators (including myself).

A talented artist should combine Zohran Mamdani’s campaign photo and the movie posters for “Conan the Destroyer” and “You Don’t Mess with the Zohan” to produce a “Zohran the Destroyer” meme image.

Anyone working-class that’s unhappy with the DNC should look into the Working Families Party. They are non-existent where I am, but I believe they are fairly active in NYC in particular, and on the other coast as well.

Hopefully, the DNC won’t do something stupid (e.g. support someone other than Mamdani).

Is the NYC Mayor General also ranked choice? Vote splitting is less impactful with ranked choice.

Still, it would be nice to see what a democratic socialist executive can do with NYC.

Nah, it’s just new and improved: with Wings! (to stay in the right place all night long)

Clarke’s Maxim: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Corollary / Contrapositive: Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.

When the environment is energetic enough, the electromagnetic force and the weak force unify into the electroweak force. The weak interaction controls radioactive decay.

We can control electromagnetic force “at scale”, IMO. It’s not freely, but we have networks of electromagnetic systems that span continents.

If we could control the weak force at the same scale… I’m not sure what wonders we might unlock. At the very least, I imagine we could “clean” instead of just “contain” radioactive waste, at least low-level stuff.

When we figure out how to manipulate elctro-weak at scale, it will be magic.

Electro-mag is pretty crazy already, I agree. The ICP can’t even figure out how they work.

Not every error bar represents a Gaussian, if for no other reason that most error bars aren’t symmetric.

The error bars for small sample size relative to population size are Gaussian.

Error due to a non-representative sample can have a variety of shapes, but their distribution might also be unknown. We do frequently, almost implicitly, assume unknown distributions to be Gaussian, but we should recognize that’s not necessarily a true fact about the universe.

It’s a very non-representative, very small sample. The error bars in the statistical inference to the whole population includes both “very common” and “one-in-a-million”.

Honestly, since I found Lemmy, I mostly ignore (or don’t even see) Reddit news. Rarely it still shows up when I search things, but I just view those without logging in and don’t vote / comment.

I think my Reddit account still exists, but I haven’t logged in since 3rd party apps stopped working. It took me a bit to find Lemmy, and I’m still not on it was frequently as I was on Reddit.

I deleted my Twitter account when they announced they would be training grok on my tweets. I hadn’t logged into it since Elmu mass-banned a bunch of journalists for retweeting the “Elon’s Jet” account. I decided Mastodon was more likely to not get between me and the journalists I wanted to see microblogs from.

I’m not hardcore. I an still well-entrenched in the Google ecosystem (primarily YT). I still have a Facebook account, and occasionally login to un-tag myself. I use Amazon Pay / Paypal whenever I can, tho I at least stopped paying for Prime when they decided to start putting ads in Prime Video stuff.

I think the Catholic Church does Latin because that was the language the first pope (Saul/Paul) was given his revelation in.

Omniscient being(s) would, of course, understand any language.

The weave/astral is manipulated by intelligence/will and the somatic component if any is just to provide caster focus.

I wonder if could be an age component, too? Artificial lighting used to be a lot more yellow. “Party” lighting tends to be more blue.

My fave minimalist loss: :.|:;

I think that’s the Dewey decimal system, which inspired the Chewy decimal system, which is the next innovation in grocery store layouts.

I have FF installed, and set it as my default. (It’s what links from Tusky use, at least.) I just happened to use the OS search bar which always (?) uses the Android browser.

I have UBO installed on FF because it’s the only way browsing the web leaves any content visible anymore.